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Customer Reviews for EUROPEAN AMERICAN ARMORY Witness Steel 14+1 10mm 4.5"


EUROPEAN AMERICAN ARMORY Witness Steel 14+1 10mm 4.5 Buy Now

26 Reviews. 3.9 out of 5 Stars!
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Nicholas R on 12/26/2019
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

Love it, little recoil, very accurate. Would buy again

Edward C on 12/14/2019
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

Took it out to the range after a through cleaning (which it needed). Went through 50 rounds of Speer Lawman with no problems. Good accuracy at 50 feet, recoil not too bad, overall a nice gun for the money. It's not a Bren Ten but I'm happy with my purchase. I also own in in 45 ACP for several years and its been a reliable shooter. The only drawback of the Witness is the slide is not very deep, so 4 out of 5 stars.

Robert F on 07/04/2019
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

Exactly what I was looking for Tangfolio 10mm in wonder finish. Bud's price was the best.

Larry B on 07/19/2018
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

This is a very fine pistol. I like it enough that I plan to get one in 38 Super sometime in the near future. It handles the 10mm cartridge very well, the steel frame handles the recoil nicely.

Dwight D on 06/23/2018
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

BEST 10 MM PISTOL, GOOD PRICE, WEIGHT TAMES 10 MM RECOIL, GREAT DOUBLE ACTION, RUGGED , PERFECT TRAIL GUN NO MALFUNCTIONS WITH VARIOUS TYPES OF AMMO. GREAT PRICE FROM BUDD'S. WHY PAY A $1,000 FOR A SINGLE ACTION 10 MM ? GLOCK 10 IS ALSO GOOD BUT LIGHT WEIGHT MAKES IT UNCOMFORTABLE TO SHOOT.

Aaron A on 02/23/2018
Rating:   3 of 5 Stars!

This is a great feeling gun that fits the hand like a glove. I took it oot yesterday to the range and its more accurate than I am. The finish is nowhere near what's represented in the picture. Its shows a steel/nickel finish. NOPE. Its more of a very light bronze color very similar to the wonder finish.

Lee A on 01/26/2018
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

Excellent pistol. A must have. Shoots like a dream. That being said, no kidding, a real thrill.

Joe B on 11/24/2017
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

Great value, and BudsGunShop.com was top notch with their service! I received a 2017 model, and installed a Henning Group conefit recoil rod, an 18# Wolff recoil spring, and a Henning Group XL firing pin with an extra power Wolff firing pin spring. Ran 100 rounds of Remington MC 180 grain flat tips without any issues. Flawless feeding, firing, and extraction on all rounds. I am very pleased with this pistol and its performance!

Dwight L on 08/05/2017
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

This EAA tanfoglio 10 MM is a good looking gun, the wonder finish on the 2016 version looks like brushed stainless in person, But! the owners manual says to maintain it like blued finish guns. I haven't shot the gun yet but I do own a Tan. 4.5 inch barrel poly in 9mm the low center of gravity makes it! a real sweet shooting gun & it shoots flawlessly, I have read reviews where the 10 mm has had some issues, but they are easily corrected with different pound recoil springs by Wolf Springs. This all steel 10mm has enough weight to it it should soak up the 10 mm recoil nicely with the Tanfoglio low center of gravity barrel, But not too heavy to carry with a good! holster, I got a Hogue Hand all slip on rubber grip with cobble stone texture and finger grips & it fits over the original plastic grips perfectly & imparts good control of the gun it also soaks up recoil. EAA sells many accessories for the large frame steel guns all different calibers & a 22 LR conversion as,well sights & safeties. At less than half the price than most other 10 MM on the market a life time warranty to the original purchaser what's not to like? BUDSGUNSHOP was great to work with also good experience!

Stephen S on 07/31/2017
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

The WITNESS ,full size, steel body. Mine came in 10mm. A caliber I was unfamiliar with. This pistol quickly stole my affection and it is now my Favorite handgun. When I carry...it is this handgun. Mine suddenly malfunction after about nine months of weekly 300+ round target bouts at my local indoor range. I returned it and the factory upgraded the unit to a "match grade" free of charge.

Chris C on 07/03/2017
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

The grips and sights are cheap and the spring is too light for real 10mm loads - replace all three and it becomes a fine pistol - you cannot beat the CZ-75 design.

Mark E on 06/25/2017
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

This is a great bargain for a 10MM double stack! It looks great, workmanship is top-notch, and recoil is not much more than a .45 ACP, just a bit more 'snappy'! Best bang-for-the buck that I've spent on a firearm in many, many years. Highly, highly, highly recommend getting this pistol, IF you can find one!

Jeremy G on 03/01/2017
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

I have had 2 steel wonders in 10mm love both of them even full power hand loads run good work on so very hot loads here soon

David W on 02/27/2015
Rating:   5 of 5 Stars!

Great gun only issue was with the mag it won't hold more than 10 rounds for me even though it is numbered to 15, however after a few range trips it now holds 15 rounds, looking to buy a conversion kit for it now

David W on 10/26/2014
Rating:   3 of 5 Stars!

The slide stop was very difficult to release initially, seem to work fine after a tiny bit if synthetic lubricant. Still disappointing quality controls that it would stick a little right out of the box. Otherwise seems to be good.

David L on 03/14/2011
Rating:   1 of 5 Stars!

Update EAA Witness 10mm full-size: Even after the changes mentioned in my last post, it eventually got worse. The .45 follower wouldn’t keep the slide open after the last shot. Not that I got that far very often. I was so disgusted, I handed the jam-o-matic to my adult son and said ‘It’s yours. See if you can do anything with it.’ He worked with it for quite a while trying to figure out what the major malfunction was (with the pistol, not with me – he already knows me). Anyway he got it to work. He put back in the original orange follower (kept the stronger spring) and kept the stronger recoil spring. He figured out the cases were hanging up in the extractor. He worked on the extractor (someone mentioned that in a forum somewhere) and smoothed that area and that was it. It works now. In the meantime, I had bought a Rock Island 1911 in 38 Super from Bud’s (uses my reloads) and am very happy with it. That was my second choice after the Witness (Try finding anything but these two 1911 brands in stock!). The only reason I went with the Witness was more mag capacity. Forget about it. I don’t carry full-size anything anyway. I should have gotten the R.I. to begin with. It looks, feels, and works great, right out of the box (just like the Glock 20 did.) and is real accurate. Along with the 9rd factory mag, I use a Chip McCormick 10 rd. Both work great.

David L on 02/05/2011
Rating:   3 of 5 Stars!

10mm full-size Wonder. Well, with the heavier recoil spring, the non-Wonder finish replacement slide, heavier magazine spring, Tanfoglio .45 mag follower, some vertical electric tape strips on the right side/top1/3 of the mag to stop the side-to-side motion of the mag, and using round nose (not round-nose flat tip) copper- plated hollow-base 155 gr. bullets, sacrificing 2rds capacity of the mag...so far it's actually working! But I've been fooled before. I need to put a lot more rounds through it though to be sure. I'll let you, if any, know.

David L on 01/17/2011
Rating:   1 of 5 Stars!

In addition to the chronic jamming and tip-up problems, I noticed my Wonder Finish FS Slide was starting to crack near the back/top "corner" of the ejector cut out. This type of problem shooting ammo within SAAMI specs should not be a problem. So off it went on a wing and a prayer back to EAA for repair at my shipping cost both ways. Nevertheless it still saves money over just buying another slide yourself. For some reason I half expected they were going to tell me to go fish for supposedly abusing the gun or some such nonsense. I was pleasantly surprised when it arrived back just 8-days later with a new slide fitted on it. This one had an adjustable rear sight (with short base) and was black rather than Wonder-Finished and the gun looks damn nice that way. I think it's the slide that is used with the Witness P (polymer) Full-Size except the back sight is adjustable. I had read that the Wonder-Finishing process overheats the slide metal and makes it more brittle. They said my mag. tested OK. So I thought maybe the feed problem was the Wonder slide. Well I took it to the range today and put 100 rounds through it and the original mag. It choked big time like it always did. The slide made no difference. The best the Witness did was when I switched out the spring and follower with the Mec Gar's .45 Witness ones which actually helped it shoot 9 rounds in-a -row once and 8 in-a-row another time. When it did fire, it was really accurate. The most common feed problem was the nose up as if the rounds working their way up behind the top one push it too high. Anyway, I had enough for now. So I left the range, bought the latest Glock 20 (my first Glock in any caliber) and returned to the range. It performed flawlessly right out of the box. I only put 50 rounds through it but I got accurate with it. Should've bought the Glock in the first place. Well, the EAA is a piece of junk that's tantalizingly close to being a great pistol. I'll wait for a cure - maybe Mec-Gar will make a 10mm mag. that works since Tangfoglio can't seem to get it done or care to try. I've got a heavier recoil spring on the way. Who knows.

David L on 12/27/2010
Rating:   1 of 5 Stars!

Alas, even my second new Tangfoglio 10mm magazine did not work. I even tried using the follower from the compact model. It failed just the same (but no worse) than the large frame one. I would never depend on this to protect myself. I like the looks, feel, accuracy (with the rounds between the constant jams), and lower felt recoil, but this gun don't shoot. I will go as far to say if the other models like mine work the same way as mine, this gun is actually DANGEROUS what with all the unjamming you have to do. I would not recommend it to anybody. I should have got the Glock. As for the Witness, looks and low price aren't everything. I'll hang onto my Witness hoping for a miracle fix from somewhere I haven't looked yet.

David L on 12/21/2010
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

Update #2 on my Witness 10mm magazine. I thought I had the fix in my last review but the more rounds I put through it the more it went back to its' old ways. I can't figure it out. The rounds constantly jam it'll do two from the mag then jam, sometimes only one then it jams. So what I have now is a great-looking and accurate pistol that has a capacity of 1+1 not 15 +1. It's too bad because it's so comfortable for me to shoot and accurate. For now it's a cool looking paperweight. I really hesitate to try another Tanfoglio magazine, but I can't find anyone else that makes one.

David L on 12/08/2010
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

Update: Well, the Grams 12 coil spring from Henning didn’t make any difference but it was much sturdier and straighter than the factory one and fit the magazine better and having the follower attached to the spring makes the mag easier to work with. In my opinion, the problem is with the Tanfoglio 15rd 10mm mag body. The nose of the rounds start to rub up against the inside of the mag as they near the top and yet the cartridge base is all the way back and the OAL is to spec. This makes rounds point low and hit too low on the pistol’s feed ramp (and that’s saying a lot because it’s a long ramp.) but also I’ve seen the case mouths (uncrimped) catch on the high, straight mag lip and stop the cartridge right in its’ tracks. So I decided to grind a shallow U-shape on the lip of the mag (about 3/16ths of an inch deep at the center) like you see on some other pistol mags. It worked. It gave the cartridges time to tip up just before they came on deck and the case mouths don’t come in contact with the now missing straight edge. The bullet noses hit on the bottom half of the ramp but fed without any problems. I’ve only put two mag-fulls (15 rds. ea) successfully through for now but I’m optimistic. I use the UpLULA Universal Pistol Mag Loader the guy at the local gunshop/indoor range talked me into. It was a little pricey and kind of a puzzle at first (not the first time I felt foolish at a range) but once you get the hang of it, it’s great. The last two rounds (14&15 or is it 1&2?) still have to be pressed in a lot harder than the rest but it don’t hurt with this loader. So for now I’ll just wing it with the one mag and see what my next step will be for a couple more mags.

David L on 11/22/2010
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

Very nice looking pistol! I am very pleased. Feels good. Recoil is less than you'd think. Good accuracy. Delivery time good. Unlike picture, mine came with rail, nice. Field stripping is as easy as my Sigs if not easier. I'm seriously thinking of a 38 super/9x23 coversion just for the fun of it. Before this I was thinking of getting a 1911 (for at least twice the $) but that urge is gone now. One problem however, the magazine totally sucks. I checked it all out, it's the magazine, not the pistol or any part of it. Funny, because the mag seems well-built. If you just put 6 rounds or so in it, it works perfect, otherwise, with a full mag of 15, at least 3 or 4 rounds nose dive and jam on bottom of ramp. I've ordered a 12-coil spring & follower designed for it from Henning's Shop to try to fix it. What I saved by buying through Bud's should cover it. And maybe I'll look for a non-Tanfoglio mag or two that has good ratings for this pistol.

Jonathan H on 01/18/2010
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

After the first two boxes of full power double tap ammo that i put through it I realized that the hammer was hitting the frame after each shot, so i upgraded to a wolf 22lbs recoil spring and so far so good. The other thing that i noticed was how hard the mag is to load the springs are way to strong so i just left it loaded for a month and it seemed to "break in". Also the gun that i received did not have adjustable sights as advertised, but overall the gun performs well and i have no major issues with it and the transaction with buds was smooth and quick.

Jason R on 09/04/2009
Rating:   3 of 5 Stars!

OK, so I have about 900 full power rounds through the witness. At around 500 rounds, the slide cracked and had to be sent back to FL for a new slide. EAA fitted a slide with a super sight to my frame and sent it back. I have to say that the accuracy has improved immensely and the reliability is now at the 100% range. Not a jam in sight. EAA Customer Service is easily a 5 out of 5 as is the repaired firearm. Unfortunately, I have to still rate it a 3 out of 5 because of the initial critical slide failure. I would recommend the firearm to other individuals, just be aware of the initial unreliability (break in REQUIRED) and the potential for the slide to crack under full power loads. One change that I made were + 10% magazine springs and a 22 lb recoil buffer springs from Wolf. I had to purchase the higher power recoil spring so that the slide would reliably strip the cartridges from the magazine. After those changes, the gun has moved to near the top of my list for price, reliability and accuracy.

John G on 08/26/2009
Rating:   4 of 5 Stars!

CZ ran into an issue with jamming at one time and they fixed it with a slight re-design of the slide stop. This could possibly help as the parts of the Witness knock off pf the CZ swap back and forth with the CZ. ( Identical in almost ever way )....

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